Talk:Helpfulness

Altruism

There is an article on altruism which talks about psychology and sociology. I'm unsure what to do here - do we move this article hjh to Altruism (psychology and sociology)? That might be a better name. The article also needs a rewrite... I have not got enough knowledge of the subject area or wikipedia to do this though. --82.152.248.87 (talk) 17:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

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Joo> I don't think this is so: "In social psychology, the everyday concept of helpfulness is technically defined as (1) the property of providing useful assistance, and (2) friendliness evidenced by a kindly and helpful disposition [syn: kindliness]."

I obtained the definition from an online non-technical dictionary.

Who to help?

I'm here to tackle a an issue that is quite paradoxical.Is helping someone do a terrible thing is still helping, only one that one person benefits, while others suffer? Unsigned

What do you mean? Is helping what? helping is a very unspecific term. Try Altrusim --82.152.248.87 (talk) 17:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

References problem

I marked this article with the refimprove template because there are many parenthetical references in the text that do not have corresponding references in the reference section. There are also references that have no matching citation in the body of the entry. I can't take the time right now to fix them, but will check back to see whether I might be able to resolve some. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dana leighton (talk • contribs) 21:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)